Industrial Screening of Cocoa Powder

Brazilian supplier of cocoa Indústria Brasileira de Cacau increases sieving capacity with installation of Russell Compact Sieve® within its brand-new processing line.

Founded in 2005, Indústria Brasileira de Cacau (IBC) supplies cocoa to companies who use it as raw material in the food and the cosmetics industries. As IBC sought to implement a brand-new processing line, the company needed to be assured of quality before choosing the best sieving solution for this application.

As cocoa powder is a difficult to screen powder using standard units, Russell Finex recommended the Russell Compact Sieve®: a highly versatile, easy-clean sieve ideal for the safety-screening of food powders, like cocoa powder.

With the Russell Compact Sieve®, IBC were able to achieve the following key benefits:

1- Increased production - achieved higher product throughput rates per unit area of mesh

2- Compact and easily fit into the production line - including into an existing installations or areas of limited headroom

3- Eliminated oversize - improved product purity and safeguard quality

Learn more about how Russell Finex improved IBC’s industrial sieving of cocoa powder: